I saw the Tory thing - amazing.  A whole geographical area no longer serves the 

interests of an abstract entity, the market, so

the real place has to go!  No question of whether the market is serving us well, 

we must reconfigure our world to suit it.

Looks like the start of a policy of "planned shrinkage" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_shrinkage]. It didn't work in the US, but if the UK doesn't mind repeating the mistakes made on the other side of the Atlantic...

 

Manuel

 

2008/8/13, Featherstone, David <[log in to unmask]>:

Wow- this appears to be for real-... Guardian is covering it too...I thought it was some August April fool...

Raises the question tho- have Northern cities failed- or have Tories failed in northern cities?

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for critical and radical geographers on behalf of Dr Hillary Shaw
Sent: Wed 13/08/2008 10:19
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Mad geographies of Toryland

What would this make the urban geography of the UK look like  ?????   I'd
love to see the morning rush hour queues on the M4  eastbound elevated section
after this idea was implemented.


Abandon  poverty-stricken north and make people move to the south, says Tory 
think-tank



Deprived Northern cities are beyond revival and the  millions who live there
should migrate to the prosperous South East, according  to one of the Tories'
favourite think-tanks.



Full Story: 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1044155/Abandon-poverty-stricken-north
-make-people-south-says-Tory-think-tank.html



13  August 2008

Hillary Shaw, Newport, Shropshire

(PS maybe they could pull down Stoke on Trent whiist they're at it, and 
definitely get rid of Telford, maybe Stafford too - then where I live would be 
really nice and rural....